Hottest, deadliest, most expensive: 45 unbelievable world records of travel

World's fastest train

You want a speedy connection from the airport to the city? You want the Shanghai Maglev. It may be only 19 miles long, but this link from Pudong International Airport to the central Longyang Road station in China's most populous city is home to trains which can whizz along at a top speed of 268mph. It operates via magnetic levitation, meaning that the carriages effectively hover above the track rather than riding along it. Even faster is the Yamanashi Maglev Line, at 374 mph. It is just a test line, however, so you can't ride it.